Modelling ocean currents in a changing climate

Modelling ocean currents in a changing climate Paul Myers, Professor at the University of Alberta, emphasizes the necessity for a new generation of very high-resolution computer models to effectively understand how ocean currents will change in a warming climate. The Summary for Policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s recent ‘Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC)’ states, “Impacts of climate-related changes in the ocean and cryosphere increasingly challenge current governance efforts to develop and implement adaptation responses from local to global scales, and in some cases pushing them to their limits. People with the highest exposure and vulnerability are often those with lowest capacity to respond.” (1)